Is anyone here getting a VACO review ,due to writing to Sec. Bob or Mrs. Hickey?
I was told yesterday,that they will have my claims by tomorrow. at VA Central and the director told me yesterday,I will have a contact person there by Thursday, in her next email or call to me.
This is both good and bad for some claimants.
It sure puts our situations into the hands of the upper echelon.
However, this could end up being the next hamster wheel too.....
Who will do these reviews?
Lawyers from OGC or from the BVA? They are all in the backlog too.
I did have a VACO review for my FTCA matter. it involved both, the legal aspects of my case as well as the medical aspects.
It was quite thorough after an initial screw up
My RO removed my prime evidence from the C file prior to sending it to the OGC,who in turn obtained a faulty initial VACO medical review. I raised a ruckus immediately when I discovered what the RO had done, and not long after that, OGC called me up to begin negotiations.
Prior to all of the the Regional Counsel had been willing to settle with me based on a Peer Review report that fully supported my charges of malpractice on the SF 95 I filed.
SF95 filed December 1994
RC and Peer review report dated March or May of 1995. I just read it but forget the dates..
Since the VA (OMLA and the RO here in NY)then told me the favorable report "Never existed" (and of course they lied ---I used it for my AO IHD award)
I had to do my whole FTCA case without it.
So MAKE SURE when you get a contact person from VA Central, that they have everything they need to fully opinion on your claim.
I found another CUE in one of my decisions yesterday while speaking to the Director, and I bust out laughing and interrupted her to tell her of it.......plus she forgot and I reminded her ,to deal with 2 other issues I had regarding basic VA case law that they screwed up.
I could not get a copy of the bogus medical review they did that I asked for a few days ago, , because as she said, the 10 volume file was already in transit to VA Central. yeah right
Has Anyone else here been transferred to VA Central due to their emnails or letters to Sec Bob and/or Ms. Hickey?
I am absolutely thrilled to know my files are going to someone in DC who can read ,but I am concerned that this could be a new hamster wheel tactic, in order for the ROs to stall........
Still a VACO review is binding and worth the time that could actually save in the tradition appeals process.
A matter I had longer ago was resolved immeiately by the OGC, sending them an order to pay me. and when an RC here in NY caught a CUE himself in one of my clais, he too ordred them to immediately pay me.
My point here is, if you have a strong a valid complaint as to an improper way the RO handled your claim, by all means contact Sec,. Bob and/ or Ms. Hickey.!
They need to hear from any claimant who either been denied basic 101 VA rights or whose VARO has not properly handled their claim.
This all might become a new hamster wheel if VACO gets a lot of review requests but in the long run , it will shorter the RO,BVA, back to RO, BS and the DRO SSOC transfer to BVA BS anyhow.for many claimants whose claims were not handled right by the RO.
And, more importantly, the VACO will begin to see ,in our individual C files, just how stupid some of these GS level clowns really are.
As I told Ms Hickey, the Under Secretary...we claimants didn't cause the backlog..the VA did.
And the cause ,in most cases, came primarily from the Regional Offices.
I referred her to the BVA annual reports to Congress...regarding thousands of remands , that cause a re-do of what the ROs should have done right in the first place..
So I am getting a VA Central review.
To get a medical opinion that addresses the favorable VACO medical Opinion I already have.
for the 1151 claim and wjhy my Rights were violated under Relative Equipoise
and
an opinion on my CUE claim as to why ,although they granted 20 additional months under accrued, and cited my accrued claim in the Evidence,still applicable to any issue I have,
they said I had already been paid all of the accrued.
I was paid for 6 months only.
As we hung up I told the director to expect my next new claim coming soon.
I am working on that today. As simple as my pending 1151 claim....except my RO cant read.
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Berta
Is anyone here getting a VACO review ,due to writing to Sec. Bob or Mrs. Hickey?
I was told yesterday,that they will have my claims by tomorrow. at VA Central and the director told me yesterday,I will have a contact person there by Thursday, in her next email or call to me.
This is both good and bad for some claimants.
It sure puts our situations into the hands of the upper echelon.
However, this could end up being the next hamster wheel too.....
Who will do these reviews?
Lawyers from OGC or from the BVA? They are all in the backlog too.
I did have a VACO review for my FTCA matter. it involved both, the legal aspects of my case as well as the medical aspects.
It was quite thorough after an initial screw up
My RO removed my prime evidence from the C file prior to sending it to the OGC,who in turn obtained a faulty initial VACO medical review. I raised a ruckus immediately when I discovered what the RO had done, and not long after that, OGC called me up to begin negotiations.
Prior to all of the the Regional Counsel had been willing to settle with me based on a Peer Review report that fully supported my charges of malpractice on the SF 95 I filed.
SF95 filed December 1994
RC and Peer review report dated March or May of 1995. I just read it but forget the dates..
Since the VA (OMLA and the RO here in NY)then told me the favorable report "Never existed" (and of course they lied ---I used it for my AO IHD award)
I had to do my whole FTCA case without it.
So MAKE SURE when you get a contact person from VA Central, that they have everything they need to fully opinion on your claim.
I found another CUE in one of my decisions yesterday while speaking to the Director, and I bust out laughing and interrupted her to tell her of it.......plus she forgot and I reminded her ,to deal with 2 other issues I had regarding basic VA case law that they screwed up.
I could not get a copy of the bogus medical review they did that I asked for a few days ago, , because as she said, the 10 volume file was already in transit to VA Central. yeah right
Has Anyone else here been transferred to VA Central due to their emnails or letters to Sec Bob and/or Ms. Hickey?
I am absolutely thrilled to know my files are going to someone in DC who can read ,but I am concerned that this could be a new hamster wheel tactic, in order for the ROs to stall........
Still a VACO review is binding and worth the time that could actually save in the tradition appeals process.
A matter I had longer ago was resolved immeiately by the OGC, sending them an order to pay me. and when an RC here in NY caught a CUE himself in one of my clais, he too ordred them to immediately pay me.
My point here is, if you have a strong a valid complaint as to an improper way the RO handled your claim, by all means contact Sec,. Bob and/ or Ms. Hickey.!
They need to hear from any claimant who either been denied basic 101 VA rights or whose VARO has not properly handled their claim.
This all might become a new hamster wheel if VACO gets a lot of review requests but in the long run , it will shorter the RO,BVA, back to RO, BS and the DRO SSOC transfer to BVA BS anyhow.for many claimants whose claims were not handled right by the RO.
And, more importantly, the VACO will begin to see ,in our individual C files, just how stupid some of these GS level clowns really are.
As I told Ms Hickey, the Under Secretary...we claimants didn't cause the backlog..the VA did.
And the cause ,in most cases, came primarily from the Regional Offices.
I referred her to the BVA annual reports to Congress...regarding thousands of remands , that cause a re-do of what the ROs should have done right in the first place..
So I am getting a VA Central review.
To get a medical opinion that addresses the favorable VACO medical Opinion I already have.
for the 1151 claim and wjhy my Rights were violated under Relative Equipoise
and
an opinion on my CUE claim as to why ,although they granted 20 additional months under accrued, and cited my accrued claim in the Evidence,still applicable to any issue I have,
they said I had already been paid all of the accrued.
I was paid for 6 months only.
As we hung up I told the director to expect my next new claim coming soon.
I am working on that today. As simple as my pending 1151 claim....except my RO cant read.
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